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Top 23 Autonomous driving startups based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 37 autonomous driving startups headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 4,403 professional contacts across them, including 624 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.
This list covers autonomous driving startups headquartered in Germany, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 23 largest autonomous driving startups based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,012 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We develop the mobility of the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 456 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At MOIA, we’re building a future for mobility that’s safe, autonomous, and driven by cities and their people.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vision: We ensure that safety-critical vehicle intelligence is reliably validated, trustworthy, and ready for deployment - for every mission.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At FERNRIDE, we believe in a future where robotics unlocks human potential to create a better world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The b-plus Group is with more than 200 employees an international leading development partner for advancing technologies in the fields of autonomous driving, driver assistance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “QCraft: Pioneering the Global Frontier of Physical AI Founded in Silicon Valley in 2019, QCraft is a global leader in autonomous driving with R&D hubs in Munich, Suzhou, Beijing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FDTech liefert Bausteine für die Erweiterung aktueller und die Neugestaltung zukünftiger Mobilität.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MOTOR Ai entwickelt Software für autonomes Fahren nach Level 4, basierend auf einem eigenständigen kognitiven KI-Ansatz mithilfe von Active Inference.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ibeo Automotive Systems GmbH has positioned itself as a global technology leader for LiDAR (light detection and ranging) sensors and the associated products and software tools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Working to bring driverless mobility to everyone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “covolv.ai is a startup based in Hamburg, Germany developing a fully integrated and energy efficient, embedded AI/ML based in-car autonomous driving product for global car…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Den Weg ins digitale Zeitalter ebnet digitalwerk – ob Audi, Volkswagen, BMW oder Mercedes-Benz: Sie alle setzen auf unsere ständig weiterentwickelten Werkzeuge zur Entwicklung von…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “driveblocks GmbH is a Munich-based software company developing autonomy and driver-assistance software for off-road vehicles in agriculture, construction, and defense.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Goggo Network was founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky and ex-McKinsey Associate Partner Yasmine Fage to lead the driverless revolution in order to solve the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die MIRA GmbH hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, den Weg zum automatisierten Fahren und damit die Zukunft der Mobilität maßgeblich mitzugestalten.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Futurail is a leading technology startup and autonomy powerhouse based in Strasbourg and Munich.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Aitonomi develops self-driving deep-tech AI and related innovations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to the Autonomous Vehicle Systems (AVS) lab, where the future of intelligent transportation comes to life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Asaphus Vision, our mission is to lead the way in enabling safer and more personalized driving experiences for all.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PanocularAI is an award-winning research-driven spin-off aimed at making every autonomous system perceive and understand the environment efficiently.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Promotives will establish itself as the first service provider for autonomous valet parking (AVP).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Futive's mission is to bring together the worlds of robotics and vehicle technology to develop the innovative mobility solutions of the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Spring is Accelerating the deployment of self-driving vehicle fleets” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: autonomous driving startups. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names autonomous driving startups.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of autonomous driving startups, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name autonomous driving startups. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Autonomous driving startups based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 37 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among autonomous driving startups, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Germany whose own description of what they do matches “autonomous driving startups”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names autonomous driving startups), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among autonomous driving startups, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 624 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names autonomous driving startups, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many autonomous driving startups are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 37 autonomous driving startups headquartered in Germany as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
IAV Gmbh, headquartered in Berlin, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most autonomous driving startups?
Berlin leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by Munich (6) and Dusseldorf (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 624 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 37 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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